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Meeting notes 8-14

Connie from Buffalo-Niagara Gardening had a small issue with image sizes. In areas where thumbnails should’ve been loading, larger images did. They scaled down correctly, but users were downloading full-size images, only to see them at less than 100px wide. Andy found that this was because a featured image was not chosen on some of the articles, so the theme then defaulted to the first image within the article. Using the featured image, the correctly sized images began loading. Security Discussion We spent some time duriing the meetup discussing some basic security issues and plugins to alleviate them. First was making sure to not use ‘admin’ as a username on your site. If you did, make a new administrator level user and delete the old user named ‘admin’. Terry mentioned being careful about your nickname, as hackers can target that. We also talked about changing the location of the Login and Admin Panel urls, to help with brute-force login

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Notes from 03-27-14 Meetup

At this month’s User/Blogger Meetup we had an in-depth talk about Images and WordPress. Hitting on many of the aspects of images and how WordPress handles them. First, we demonstrated the typical flow to upload images and add them to your post or page. Showing the different linking abilities with the direct link to file, or the link to the attachment page which embeds the image within the “container” of your websites design. We looked at how to change your image size choices (Settings → Media), and that if you change these they don’t affect previously uploaded images, without using a plugin—Regenerate Thumbnails by Viper007Bond is a great choice and I use this myself. It hasn’t been updated recently but works fine in all my use-cases. We also took a look at the built-in Photo Editing features, and most everyone was frustrated with the bad User Interface of much of these functions. The Cropping, Ratio Functions, and having to Save,

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